Deterioration of building materials and artworks in the ‘Santa Maria della Stella’ church, Saluzzo (Italy): Causes of decay and possible remedies

Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of an Early 20th Century English Painted Organ Case by Temple Moore

“…This type of decorative artwork, typically applied to church interiors in the form of painted screens, reredoses, dado rails, organ cases, pulpits, and the interior of roofs, has had little published scientific analysis and what has been done tends to be on earlier objects [14,15], unlike wall paintings of all periods that have been the subject of extensive research [16][17][18]. Major architects engaged on ecclesiastical projects such as Sir Arthur Blomfield, Sir Ninian Comper [19], William Butterfield [20], Sir George Gilbert Scott and sons George and Oldrid, George Frederick Bodley [21], Norman Shaw, Temple Moore, Ewan Christian, William Burges [22], William Caröe, Sir Edwin Lutyens [23], and many others, commissioned a vast amount of such decorative church artwork which is well known for its form and style but very poorly understood in terms of pigment and binder composition, these details usually only coming to light when conservation work is undertaken or to inform conservation, and rarely openly published as individual studies [24][25][26]. Although the analysis in this study has arisen because the organ case involved required conservation, the opportunity has been taken to further our technical knowledge of commissioned artwork of the period.…”

Determination of materials and techniques involved in the mural paintings of San Miguel Church, Argentina

“…The mineral phase dypingite (Mg 5 [CO 3 ] 4 [OH] 2 ·5H 2 O) was also found ( # ), their presence was confirmed by its band at 1,122 cm ‐1 . Despite this is not being a common pigment, this compound that can be found in mural paintings as a product of deterioration produced by the strong basic media employed in the technique …”

Ge-conservación Nº 14

“…Una fuente importante de las sales puede proceder del lavado de acumulaciones de deyecciones de aves en zonas de cubiertas o salientes elevados (Grossi y Esbert 1994;Garabito et al 2013), habiéndose puesto de maniiesto su potencial importancia desde el punto de vista experimental (Gómez-Heras et al 2004). Algunos trabajos más recientes abordan los mecanismos asociados a los procesos de deterioro provocados por dichas acumulaciones (Dyer, 2017;Spennemann et al, 2017), y en otros se tienen en consideración, pero superpuestos a otros mecanismos adicionales causantes de patologías (Giustetto et al, 2017).…”